Car Rental

Another trip, another car rental disaster for me. This time I was off to Italy, actually doing a fact-finding trip to organise a trip next year for a lot of people – many of which, I may add will be hiring cars and looking towards us for some recommendation. I thought myself lucky before hiring, I’d spotted a thread by a business contact on LinkedIn who was very annoyed with an Italian company called Locauto. I went off on the web and read many bad things about their overcharging etc. So I thought, I’d better avoid them completely…

I’ve recently been travelling on business up to Aberdeen flew up there, using Holiday Auto’s for years when I travel I booked my car hire using them and was brokered to Europcar. I still have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth from the Enterprise Group of hire companies when I had a problem with Alamo last year, so I tend to take as many precautions as I can with car rentals! First and foremost – when I get a hire car, I photograph everything. Including the fuel gauges and all of the dents, marks and anything. I had my little Peugeot 208 for just over a day – it didn’t cost much, around £38 for that although a £1000 deposit on my credit card for the excess and if I wanted to waive that £40 – which I pointed out was more than the rental itself!